Dispatches from the Frozen North suggests a number of ways someone could create lasting errors in Wikipedia. This blogger tried some and succeeded: none of the errors were caught and corrected until the blogger ended the experiment.
Joi Ito writes about some of the mechanisms in place to catch changes. A number of people added to [...]
Feedster highlighted HBS Working Knowledge, a Web site at Harvard Business School containing a wealth of management information, as its Feed of the Day Tuesday (9/7). Several librarians at Baker Library contribute to the site.
::sighs:: I hoped to post this on the day when HBS Working Knowledge was actually Feed of the Day, but, well, [...]
This conversation on The Shifted Librarian reminds me of a few discussions in the blog group about what we can expect from service providers, server administrators, and blog developers. Their questions are whether an online public access catalog (OPAC) from a vendor as opposed to one custom built for the library is a commodity or [...]
John Palfrey, executive director of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, makes some excellent points about copyright law’s application to the digital age in this Boston Globe editorial.
"Rather than fight the emerging technologies, we’d be better served to find new ways to embrace them."
"We should figure out how to offer legitimate services [...]